The age of the crusades
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- The Age of the Crusades
- CONTENTS.
- BIBLIOGRAPHY.
- I. PRINTED COLLECTIONS OF THE SOURCES OF THE HISTORY OF THE CRUSADES.
- II. THE PRINCIPAL SOURCES OF THE HISTORY OF THE CRUSADES.
- A. Chronicles of Eye-witnesses.
- B. Letters of the Crusaders.
- C. Contemporary and Very Early Writers.
- III. WORKS ON THE CRUSADES WRITTEN FROM THE SOURCES.
- IV. GENERAL HISTORIES IN WHICH THE PERIOD OF THE CRUSADES IS INCLUDED.
- V. POETICAL TREATMENT OF THE HISTORY OF THE FIRST CRUSADE.
- CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY—OUTLINE OF STUDY.
- CHAPTER II. STATE OF SOCIETY—IGNORANCE—DULNESS OF LIFE—SUPERSTITION—LOW SENSE OF JUSTICE—CRUELTY—TASTE FOR WAR.
- CHAPTER III. CHIVALRY—RULES—EDUCATION OF KNIGHT—CEREMONIES—INFLUENCE ON CHARACTER.
- CHAPTER IV. THE FEUDAL SYSTEM—GENERAL PRINCIPLES—INFLUENCE ON PEOPLE.
- CHAPTER V. THE IMPOVERISHED CONDITION OF EUROPE.
- CHAPTER VI. THE PAPAL POLICY—DEMORALIZATION OF THE WORLD AND THE CHURCH—HILDEBRAND’S PURPOSE INHERITED BY HIS SUCCESSORS.
- CHAPTER VII. THE MOHAMMEDAN MENACE—THE RISE OF ISLAM—SARACENS—TURKS.
- CHAPTER VIII. PILGRIMAGES—ORIGIN AND GROWTH OF THE CUSTOM—EXTENT.
- THE STORY OF THE CRUSADES.
- CHAPTER IX. THE SUMMONS—PETER THE HERMIT—POPE URBAN—POPULAR EXCITEMENT.
- THE FIRST CRUSADE.
- CHAPTER X. THE CRUSADE OF THE CROWD.
- CHAPTER XI. THE CRUSADE UNDER THE CHIEFTAINS, GODFREY, RAYMOND, BOHEMOND, TANCRED, HUGH, ROBERT OF NORMANDY.
- CHAPTER XII. THE FALL OF NICÆA.
- CHAPTER XIII. BATTLE OF DORYLÆUM—TARSUS—DEFECTION OF BALDWIN.
- CHAPTER XIV. BEFORE ANTIOCH.
- CHAPTER XV. THE FALL OF ANTIOCH.
- CHAPTER XVI. THE HOLY LANCE.
- CHAPTER XVII. ON TO JERUSALEM.
- CHAPTER XVIII. THE CAPTURE OF JERUSALEM.
- CHAPTER XIX. GODFREY, FIRST BARON OF THE HOLY SEPULCHRE—CONQUEST OF THE LAND—THE KINGDOM OF JERUSALEM.
- CHAPTER XX. BALDWIN I., KING OF JERUSALEM.
- CHAPTER XXI. KING BALDWIN II.—KING FOULQUE—KING BALDWIN III.—EXPLOITS OF ZENGHI—RISE OF NOURREDIN.
- CHAPTER XXII. MILITARY ORDERS—HOSPITALLERS—TEMPLARS—TEUTONIC KNIGHTS.
- CHAPTER XXIII. EUROPE BETWEEN THE FIRST AND SECOND CRUSADES—KINGSHIP IN FRANCE—PAPAL AGGRANDIZEMENT—ABÉLARD—ARNOLD OF BRESCIA—BERNARD.
- THE SECOND CRUSADE.
- CHAPTER XXIV. BERNARD—CONRAD III.—LOUIS VII.—SUGER—SIEGE OF DAMASCUS.
- CHAPTER XXV. NOURREDIN—RISE OF SALADIN—KING GUY—QUEEN SIBYLLA.
- CHAPTER XXVI. BATTLE OF TIBERIAS—FALL OF JERUSALEM.
- CHAPTER XXVII. EUROPE BETWEEN THE SECOND AND THIRD CRUSADES—SUPERSTITION—THE WALDENSES—DEGRADATION OF THE PAPACY—FRANCE UNDER LOUIS—ENGLAND UNDER HENRY II.—RICHARD CŒUR DE LION.
- THE THIRD CRUSADE.
- CHAPTER XXVIII. WILLIAM OF TYRE—BARBAROSSA.
- CHAPTER XXIX. SIEGE OF ACRE.
- CHAPTER XXX. THE COMING OF PHILIP AUGUSTUS AND RICHARD—FALL OF ACRE.
- CHAPTER XXXI. PALESTINE AFTER THE THIRD CRUSADE—HENRY VI.—SIEGE OF THORON.
- THE FOURTH CRUSADE.
- CHAPTER XXXII. HISTORY AND CONDITION OF CONSTANTINOPLE.
- CHAPTER XXXIII. THE SUMMONS TO THE FOURTH CRUSADE—CONTRACT WITH VENICE—EGYPT THE DESTINATION—PHILIP OF SWABIA.
- CHAPTER XXXIV. THE PLOT FOR THE DIVERSION OF THE CRUSADE—CAPTURE OF ZARA.
- CHAPTER XXXV. ON TO CONSTANTINOPLE—CAPTURE OF GALATA.
- CHAPTER XXXVI. CONSTANTINOPLE SECURED TO ISAAC AND YOUNG ALEXIUS—USURPATION OF MOURTZOUPHLOS.
- CHAPTER XXXVII. CAPTURE OF CONSTANTINOPLE.
- CHAPTER XXXVIII. FOUNDING THE LATIN KINGDOM OF CONSTANTINOPLE.
- CHAPTER XXXIX. BETWEEN THE FOURTH AND FIFTH CRUSADES—CONDITION OF EAST AND WEST—THE CHILDREN’S CRUSADE.
- THE FIFTH CRUSADE.
- CHAPTER XL. DISASTER OF MARIETTA.
- THE SIXTH CRUSADE.
- CHAPTER XLI. FREDERICK II. AND POPE GREGORY IX.
- CHAPTER XLII. BETWEEN THE SIXTH AND SEVENTH CRUSADES—THE TARTARS—THE CARISMIAN INVASION.
- THE SEVENTH CRUSADE.
- CHAPTER XLIII. ST. LOUIS.
- THE EIGHTH CRUSADE.
- CHAPTER XLIV. DEATH OF ST. LOUIS—FALL OF ACRE.
- RESULTS OF THE CRUSADES.
- CHAPTER XLV. KINGSHIP—UNITY OF EUROPE—THE PAPACY—LIBERAL THOUGHT—INCREASED KNOWLEDGE—ARTS—LITERATURE—COMMERCE—THE TURKISH POWER.
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